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BOOKS FOR YOU

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YOUR PURCHASE OF THESE BOOKS SUPPORTS THE WEB SITES THAT BRING TO YOU THE HISTORY BEHIND OLD AIRFIELD REGISTERS

Your copy of the Davis-Monthan Airfield Register with all the pilots' signatures and helpful cross-references
to pilots and their aircraft is available at the link. Or use this FORM to order a copy signed by the author, while supplies last.

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TheCongress of Ghosts is an anniversary celebration for 2010. It is an historical biography, that celebrates the 5th year online of www.dmairfield.org and the 10th year of effort on the project dedicated to analyze and exhibit the history embodied in the Register of the Davis-Monthan Airfield, Tucson, AZ. This book includes over thirty people, aircraft and events that swirled through Tucson between 1925 and 1936. It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders. Order your copy at the link.

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Military Aircraft of the Davis Monthan Register, 1925-1936 is available at the link. This book describes and illustrates with black & white photographs the majority of military aircraft that landed at the Davis-Monthan Airfield between 1925 and 1936. The book includes biographies of some of the pilots who flew the aircraft to Tucson as well as extensive listings of all the pilots and airplanes. Use this FORM to order a copy signed by the author, while supplies last.

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Art Goebel's Own Story by Art Goebel (edited by G.W. Hyatt) is
written in language that expands for us his life as a Golden
Age aviation entrepreneur, who used his aviation exploits to build
a business around his passion. Available as a free download at the link.

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Winners' Viewpoints: The Great 1927 Trans-Pacific Dole Race is available at the link. What was it like to fly from Oakland to Honolulu in a single-engine plane during August 1927? Was the 25,000 dollar prize worth it? Did the resulting fame balance the risk? For the first time ever, this book presents the pilot and navigator's stories written by them within days of their record-setting adventure. Pilot Art Goebel and navigator William V. Davis, Jr. take us with them on the Woolaroc, their orange and blue Travel Air monoplane (NX869) as they enter the hazardous world of Golden Age trans-oceanic air racing.

Bureau of Aeronautics Newsletter. 1917-1942. Naval Historical Center. Aviation History Branch. Available at reasonable cost as PDF files on 6 CDs from this source. From 1942 onwards it was named the Naval Aviation News and was published in magazine form. Here's a tip for researchers. If you own Adobe Acrobat, you can use the OCR function to convert the raw files on the CDs to searchable files and save them separately for easier keyword searching. Not all words will show up in searches, though, because the scanned images of the mimeographed pages are sometimes blotchy, as in the example below. File this tip in your "better than nothing" file. Notably, W.G. Tomlinson, mentioned in this article, is a Register pilot. WL

Bureau of Aeronautics Newsletter, June 26, 1929 (Source: Webmaster)

Caiden, Martin. 1960. Golden Wings: A Pictorial History
of the United States Navy and Marine Corps in the Air. Bramhall
House, NY. 232 pp. WL

Coletta, Paolo E. 1988. A Selected and Annotated
Bibliography of American Naval History. Lanham, Md.: University
Press of America. 523 pp.

Horn, Maurice (ed.). 1996. 100 Years of American Newspaper
Comics: An Illustrated Encyclopedia. New York : Gramercy
Books.

Hyatt, G.W. 2007. The Register of the Davis-Monthan
Municipal Airport 1925-1936. Amazon.com. 323 pages. Purchasing this book supports the research and development of www.dmairfield.org. (use this FORM to order a copy signed by the author). ISBN 978-0-9843074-0-1. WL -->

____ 2007. Military Aircraft of the Davis-Monthan
Airfield 1925-1936. Amazon.com. 160 pages. Purchasing this book supports the research and development of www.dmairfield.org. (use this FORM to order a signed copy). ISBN 978-0-9843074-2-5. WL

November 5, 1936. Navy Ships Due for Bridge Fete. The
Times and Daily News Leader, San Mateo, CA. WL

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MARINE CORPS REFERENCES

Bureau of Aeronautics Newsletter. 1917-1942. Naval Historical Center. Aviation History Branch. Available at reasonable cost as PDF files on 6 CDs from this source. From 1942 onwards it was named the Naval Aviation News and was published in magazine form. WL

Hyatt, G.W. 2007. The Register of the Davis-Monthan
Aviation Field With Cross-References to the Pilots Who Landed
There and Their Aircraft. 323 pages. Purchasing this book supports the research and development of www.dmairfield.org. (use this FORM to order a copy signed by the author). WL

____ 2007. Military Aircraft of the Davis-Monthan
Airfield 1925-1936. 160 pages. Purchasing this book supports the research and development of www.dmairfield.org. (use this FORM to order a signed copy). WL -->

Air Corps Newsletter. 1918-1944. Much like the Bureau of Aeronautics Newsletterscited above these mimeographed newsletters are informal summaries of the goings on of Air Corps personnel before, during and after the period of the Davis-Monthan Register (sample cover at left). The newsletters can be downloaded and saved as PDF files at the link. Here's a tip for researchers. If you own or have access to Adobe Acrobat, you can use the OCR function to convert the raw files to searchable files and save them separately for easier keyword searching. Not all words will show up in searches, though, because the scanned images of the mimeographed pages are sometimes blotchy. File this tip in your "better than nothing" folder. WL

Dick, Ron (Photographs by Dan Patterson). 1997. American
Eagles: A History of the United States Air Force Featuring
the Collection of the U.S. Air Force Museum. Howell Press,
Charlottesville, VA. 456 pp. WL

Ellis, Peter S.H. 2000. HALE’S HANDFUL…UP FROM THE ASHES: The Forging of the Seventh Air Force from the Ashes of Pearl Harbor to the Triumph of V-J Day. Master's Thesis Presented To The Faculty Of the School Of Advanced Airpower Studies. Air University. Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. 145 pp.

Hyatt, G.W. 2007. The Register of the Davis-Monthan
Aviation Field With Cross-References to the Pilots Who Landed
There and Their Aircraft. 323 pages. Purchasing this book supports the research and development of www.dmairfield.org. (use this FORM to order a copy signed by the author). WL

____ 2007. Military Aircraft of the Davis-Monthan
Airfield 1925-1936. 160 pages. Purchasing this book supports the research and development of www.dmairfield.org. (use this FORM to order a signed copy). WL

Maurer, Maurer. 1987. Aviation in the U.S. Army, 1919-1939. United States Air Force Historical Research Center. Office of Air Force History. United States Air Force. Washington, D.C. 625 pp. 105MB. Appendix 10 of this book, entitled, "Aircraft in Use in the U.S. Army 1919-1939", pp. 483-531, illustrates the majority of the U.S. Army fixed wing aircraft used during the period (138 B&W photographs). WL

Hoagland, Roland W., Ed. 1932. Blue Book of
Aviation. The Hoagland Company, Publishers, Los Angeles,
CA. 292 pp. Interestingly, my book was presented to J. Calvin Brown (1893 - 1973), as inicated by the small gold emboss on the lower right cover. He was an engineer and lawyer and was in the Air Service during WWI, thus his interest in aviation. WL

Hyatt, G.W. 2007. The Register of the Davis-Monthan
Aviation Field With Cross-References to the Pilots Who Landed
There and Their Aircraft. 323 pages. Purchasing this book supports the research and development of www.dmairfield.org. (use this FORM to order a copy signed by the author). WL

____ 2007. Art Goebel’s Own Story by Art Goebel. 60 pages. Purchasing this book supports the research and development of www.dmairfield.org. (use this FORM to order a copy signed by the author). WL

Koontz, G.B. 2013. "Modern Connections to the Golden Age of Aviation." Director of Maintenance. October, 2013. This calls your attention to the magazine issue of October 1, 2013. At the link you'll find an article entitled, "Modern Connections to the Golden Age of Aviation" by Giacinta Bradley Koontz. As an historian, Ms. Koontz's article describes, via a few examples, how dmairfield.org has and is related to her work and writing. Note the photographs that illustrate the article. They are from this Web site. DOM is also available in paper via subscription (q.v.).

Fulton, Ken. 1994. Fokker Commercial Aircraft: From the F.1 of 1918 to the Fokker 100 of Today. Fokker Public Relations Netherlands. 212pp.

Hyatt, G.W. 2007. The Register of the Davis-Monthan
Aviation Field With Cross-References to the Pilots Who Landed
There and Their Aircraft. 323 pages. Purchasing this book supports the research and development of www.dmairfield.org. (use this FORM to order a copy signed by the author). WL

____ 2007. Military Aircraft of the Davis-Monthan
Airfield 1925-1936. 160 pages. Purchasing this book supports the research and development of www.dmairfield.org. (use this FORM to order a signed copy). WL

_____ 2010. The Congress of Ghosts. Amazon.com. 265 pages. Purchasing this book supports the research and development of www.dmairfield.org. (use this FORM to order a copy signed by the author). WL

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JOURNALS

Journal of the American
Aviation Historical Society. The Society publishes a quarterly Journal. It also sponsors and maintains a Web site that includes online databases and collections useful to historic aviation researchers who are members of the Society.

Aircraft Year Book
(right and below). Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce of America, Inc. New York,
NY. Events, technological advances, political and financial
issues related to aviation, and happenings for the previous
year are reported in each annual volume. As of January, 2009, the Google digital book project has a couple of these volumes online in readable form (and downloadable as PDF files!). For example, the volume for 1919 is at the link.

One limitation of the Yearbooks was that anyone who advertised in them had to be a member of the publishing organization, the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce of America, Inc. If you weren't a member, you didn't get representation in the Yearbooks, no matter how relevant your products or services were to the aviation community.

The Aircraft Yearbooks were widely advertised in popular aviation publications of the time. At left is an advertisement from the U.S. Air Services Magazine for January, 1927 announcing, for 1926, volume eight of the series. Publication began in 1919 with the first volume.

Note that readers could acquire all seven of the volumes to-date for $15 postpaid. Today, individual hard-copy volumes of that vintage can cost anywhere from $50-100 each, depending on condition. The volumes specifically
referred to on dmairfield.org range from 1926-1943. WL

Listings of Non-Prefixed and Non-Suffixed Aircraft
("Data Cards") in the archives of the National Air & Space
Museum, Washington, DC. These are literally 8.5" x 11" formatted cards that have summaries of the chain of custody through the years for individual aircraft (one aircraft per card). Where additional information is required, you may be able to order the full record directly from the FAA (see below in the USEFUL LINKS FOR AVIATION HISTORY section).

Juptner,
Joseph. 1962-1981. U.S. Civil Aircraft. Volumes 1-9. Aero
Publishers, Inc. Fallbrook, CA. (left). Thesine qua non for information about early U.S. aircraft. I have seen reprints of these nine volumes at air shows for $450. WL

Smithsonian Annals
of Flight Series. At the link, and the links therefrom, are publications made available by the Smithsonian in PDF, downloadable form. Various topics.

"Mother Tusch" Collection at the National Air & Space Museum. At the link is the finding aid for items in the Mother Tusch Collection. Please follow the link for details.

Allen, Richard S. 1967 & 1988. Revolution in the Sky:
The Lockheeds of Aviation's Golden Age. Orion Books, NY.
253 pp. Author Richard Sanders Allen died June 30, 2008 at the age of 91 in Lewiston, Idaho. His book is the definitive source for early Lockheeds. His files on the registration records for early Lockheed aircraft are maintained at the National Air & Space Museum, Washington, DC. They were extremely useful while building Web pages for some of the 96 Lockheed aircraft recorded in the Davis-Monthan Airfield Register. WL

Boedecker, Kenneth J. 1938. Boedy's Album (Cross Section of Aviation Personnel). Aero Digest, New York, NY. 87pp. This unusual softcover book contains small, informal snapshots of various aviation personnel whose work and adventures were part of the Golden Age of Flight. It is indexed alphabetically and is a wonderful resource to find rare photos of people who built aviation in the U.S. As a representative of Wright Aeronautical Corporation, Paterson, New Jersey, Boedecker was the service engineer who prepared Lindbergh's "Spirit of St. Louis" for the New York to Paris flight in 1927. More of Boedecker's photographs are archived at the University of Texas, Dallas.

Interestingly, before I borrowed Boedy's Album from the U.S. State Department through interlibrary loan during February, 2014, the last time it was checked out was April 25, 1942 (State Department library index card, above). The Doolittle Raid on Japan during WWII took place a week earlier. Photographed five years earlier by Boedecker on April 16, 1937 at his job with the Shell Oil Company at Patterson, NJ, James Doolittle was pictured on page 35 of Boedy's Album. The book was returned to the State Department 18-months later on October 30, 1943.

Forden, Lesley. 1972. The Ford Air Tours
1925-1931: A Complete Narrative and Pictorial History of
the Seven National Air Tour Competitions for the Edsel B.
Ford Reliability Trophy. THE NOTTINGHAM PRESS. Available
for sale or download here. WL

Gardner, L.D. (Ed.). 1928. Who's Who in American Aeronautics. The Blue Book of American Airmen. Aviation Publishing Corporation. New York, NY. 173pp. Besides brief biographical entries for noted aviators of the era, there is a table in this book (pp. 133-171) that lists, current to March 1, 1928, the pilots by name along with the type and number of Department of Commerce-issued pilot licenses earned by them. Donated to Delta Mike Airfield, Inc. Research Library by G. Leuckenotte, February, 2015.WL

Hyatt, G.W. 2007. The Register of the Davis-Monthan
Aviation Field With Cross-References to the Pilots Who Landed
There and Their Aircraft. 323 pages. Purchasing this book supports the research and development of www.dmairfield.org. (use this FORM to order a copy signed by the author). WL

____ 2007. Art Goebel’s Own Story by Art Goebel. 60 pages. Purchasing this book supports the research and development of www.dmairfield.org. (use this FORM to order a copy signed by the author). WL

____ 2007. Military Aircraft of the Davis-Monthan
Airfield 1925-1936. 160 pages. Purchasing this book supports the research and development of www.dmairfield.org. (use this FORM to order a signed copy). WL

Phillips, Edward H. 2006. Stearman Aircraft: A Detailed History. 192 pp. This book is available here. Or you can contact Russ directly here: 4550 Duerr Road, Orchard Park, New York 14127. He sells his book at $17 postpaid. WL

Standard Oil Company of California. 1931. Landing Fields of the Pacific West. 5th Ed. Published May 15, 1931. 99pp. Book donated to the Delta Mike Airfield, Inc. Library by David Pitcairn, October, 2010. WL

Writer's Program, The Work Projects Administration. 1942-43. Who's Who in Aviation: A Directory of Living Men and Women Who Have Contributed to the Growth of Aviation in the United States. Ziff-Davis Publishing Co., NY. 486 pp. Donated to Delta Mike Airfield, Inc. Research Library by David Pitcairn, October, 2010. WL

Miller, John M. 2002. Flying Stories:
A Chronicle of Aviation History from Jennys to Jets by the
Pilot Who Flew Through It All. Published by The American
Bonanza Society; available from them at www.bonanza.org .
Follow their Marketplace link. WL

PLEASE NOTE: Some of these downloads have been tested with eReaders and found compatible and readable on those devices. If you download and install them on your favorite brand of eReader, I'm interested to know your results. Please take a second to let me KNOW and I'll share your experience on this page. That said, assumedly any tablet with a PDF reader app can handle any of these free files. (KC = Kindle-compatible; XC = Android-compatible with at least Adobe Reader 10.0). The most recent version of Adobe Reader is available free at the Adobe homepage.

Courtesy of Your Webmaster

"Art Goebel's Own Story" 2010 is the fifth anniversary year of the Web site www.dmairfield.org. Likewise, 2010 marks the tenth anniversary of your Webmaster's labors on behalf of the Register that is the focus of this Web site. We celebrate this double anniversary year with a free book download. Please click the link to acquire your own copy of "Art Goebel's Own Story" (PDF 5.5MB).

"The Congress of Ghosts." Article published by your Webmaster in Skyways: The Journal of the Airplane 1920-1940. Volume 90, April, 2010. Pp. 22-26. PDF 2.5MB. XC

Calendar
for 1925-1936. Annual calendars by month
that cover 1925-1936, the dates that the Davis-Monthan Register lay
open at the Airfield in Tucson. 81KB. KC, XC

Haulman, Daniel L. 2003. One Hundred Years of Flight: USAF Chronology of Significant Air and Space Events, 1903-2002. Air Force History and Museums Program. Air University Press. Maxwell AFB AL. 162pp. (Click to download: 1.3Mb PDF)

List
of Biographical Dossiers from the National Air & Space
Museum (NASM) Archives as they relate to the pilots and passengers
of the Davis-Monthan Airfield Register. I make this list available
for site visitors who may want to contact the NASM with a biographical file number to obtain
original information about any of the Register people on the list.
The dossier number follows each person's name. People listed alphabetically. If the NASM files have one shortcoming, it is the fact that most of the original newspaper clippings in them are unsourced and undated. The second link contains NASM Archives contact information. 45KB. List is KC, XC

List
of Unsolicited Testimonials from visitors to www.dmairfield.org.
See what other site visitors to dmairfield.org had
to say about the site. To protect the privacy of my visitors, this is an anonymous list, current as of June 4, 2015. 88KB. KC, XC

Why N? A description
of US aircraft registration coding. Courtesy of the American
Aviation Historical Society Journal. 135KB. XC

The Pioneer Hotel A photographic romp through the old Aviator's Lounge at the premier Tucson hotel during the Golden Age of Flight. Go there and spend some time in the Lounge. It was a great, fun place!

"Women
of the Golden Age: Their
Airplanes and Their Spirits Still Live!” Article published by your Webmaster, March 2004. 1.58MB. Not Kindle-compatible in its current form. XC

“Standard Air Lines: A Productivity
and Operations History for Davis-Monthan Aviation Field,
1927-1930.” Article published by your Webmaster, Spring 2006. 670KB. XC

Log books of Register pilot Elmer C. McLeod. Nine log books representing 20 years of flying. McLeod was an early west coast charter pilot, and test pilot for the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation. The logs of this well-traveled pilot record flights across the United States, to Canada, Mexico and South America, and to Europe, India and South Africa. PDF downloads from 5-9Mb, depending on the log. XC

Wilmer Stultz, Lou Gordon & Amelia Earhart booklet commemorating their transatlantic flight on June 17-18, 1928. On that date, Stultz, mechanic Gordon (1901-1964), and Earhart (1897-1937) as passenger in the back, flew across the Atlantic from Trepassey Bay, Newfoundland to Burry Port, Wales. Earhart was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic, even though not as pilot in command. The booklet was printed as a handout at the celebration held in Stultz' hometown of Williamsburg, PA on July 18, 1928. It is autographed on the cover by Stultz and Gordon. 3.0MB. XC

"The Golden Age of Local Air Racing" (PDF 416 KB) is a biographical sketch of James E. Granger. This account, authored by Granger's son Norman, is one of the best things that has come through my monitor since I started this project. It has veracity and passion that are missing from your common news clips, articles and such. How great to read something written in simple, un-hyperbolic language by an eye witness. Especially by the kin of two of the best-known players (I include Granger's wife and fellow Register pilot Clema) in west coast Golden Age flying. XC

Courtesy of Roger Bailey and the St. Lawrence County (NY) Historical Association

Bailey, Roger. 2008. Dwight Church: The Flying Photographer and His Real Photo Postcards. The St. Lawrence County Historical Association Quarterly. October, 2008. 53:4. pp. 4-39. (4.2MB). This article describes the life of one owner of one of our Register airplanes, the Monosport NC113K. As well as an excellent story, this article exhibits some very sharp black and white photographs. Refer to Endnote #23 in the article. XC

Courtesy of the John B. Fornasero Family

"Reach for the Skies", 2010 (Source: Fornasero Family)

"Reach for the Skies" is a 90-year accounting of Register pilot John B. Fornasero's truly American life that spans the immigration of his parents from Italy in 1877, to his passing in 1967. Written by John Fornasero's daughters. You may download it in its entirety at the link (or click on the book cover at right). This book includes 39 black & white photographs that have not been published in any form before. This PDF file takes under two minutes to download, and is a great read (40.9 MB, 89 pages, including color covers). XC

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USEFUL LINKS FOR AVIATION HISTORY

The sites linked below (in roughly alphabetical order) are frequently referenced from various Web pages on dmairfield.org. These are quality sites that are well-documented, periodically updated and have remained stable for a number of years.

Click to go to Abandoned and Little-Known Airfields. The Webmaster at this site, Paul Freeman, has compiled descriptions and images of 1,412 airfields in all 50 states. He includes "then & now" aerials of some fields (you'd be surprised at how many old airfields are now shopping centers), as well as navigational chart depictions of the airfields through the years. Many Home Base and Destination airfields cited in the Register by Davis-Monthan pilots are referenced at this site.

Click to go to aerofiles.com, a comprehensive airplane history and reference site, with keyword-searchable database of civil and military aircraft. If it ever flew, it's here. Likewise, information on air racing, biographies, museums, etc.

Air Force Historical Studies Office. The home page of this site has a link to "Our Books and Online Publications." Follow the link to a list of Historical Studies Office publications by author and by title. Some of these are specifically relevant to the Army pilots, aircraft and events recorded in the Davis-Monthan Airfield Register. The site is a good browse.

Allen Airways Flying Museum. Friend of your Webmaster and dmairfield.org, Bill Allen provided much of the information and many of the photographs to build the Web page for Frederick Trapnell. He provided images for several other pilots and aircraft as well. The Museum houses Register airplane Laird NC10402.

Click to go to Joe Baugher's Site. There you will find all USAAS-USAAC-USAAF-USAF aircraft serial numbers listed chronologically, 1908 to present. Further, you will also find US Navy and US Marine Corps aircraft serial numbers and Bureau Numbers, 1911 to present. Brief descriptions of airplane fates, when known, are listed after some of the numbers. For example, got a photograph of your grandfather standing next to a twin-engined airplane with the number 41-7496 stenciled on it? Go to Joe's site and find out that the airplane was a P-38F Lightning, wrecked at Metropolitan Airport, Van Nuys, CA on June 1, 1943. Hopefullly your grandfather wasn't in it!

Click to go to the home page of Early Birds of Aviation Web site. The Early Birds were an organization of pioneer aviators who flew solo before December 17, 1916. The site at the link has many interesting photographs and biographies of these elite pilots. The membership roster of the Early Birds lists 280 names. There will never be any more. There are no surviving members of the Early Birds of Aviation as of the upload date of this page. An article from Popular Aviation magazine, September, 1940, at the link (PDF 1.2Mb) documents Early Bird history and highlights some of the living members as of that date.

One of the references above is the Listings of Non-Prefixed and Non-Suffixed Aircraft
("Data Cards") in the archives of the National Air & Space
Museum, Washington, DC. These are literally 8.5" x 11" formatted cards that have summaries of the chain of custody through the years for individual aircraft (one aircraft per card).

FindaGrave, a useful commercial site for, what else, finding a grave. It presents information about graves of famous and not so famous people located in cemeteries around the world. Many of our Register pilots are online at FindaGrave. In some cases it's their only Web presence.

British aviation journal Flight from 1909-2004. Go to this site, click the ARCHIVE button, and you will find, in keyword-searchable, PDF downloadable and printable form, all the volumes of this journal. What a storehouse of information, especially for British and Continental aviation. U.S. and global flight coverage is also timely and fairly broad. Retrieval of information is somewhat slow, but worth the wait.

The home page of the Los Angeles Public Library Web site is a great source for photographs of Register aircraft and people. From the home page click "Browse the Photo Collection".

The home page of the National Air & Space Museum (NASM), Washington, DC. The archivists at the Museum have graciously, and with great hospitality, hosted your Webmaster every summer since 2001 to work with their records of people, airplanes and events relevant to www.dmairfield.org, THE Web site of the Davis-Monthan Airfield Register. Literally thousands of pages on dmairfield.org are touched by information learned and acquired from the NASM, not the least of which is their collection of biographical files (PDF 44.5KB). For further information and exploration of NASM holdings, you can click from the NASM home page dropdown menus RESEARCH --> ARCHIVES. Phone numbers and email addresses are there to support your own research needs. Site visitors ask me all the time, "Can I go to the Archives and look stuff up?" The answer is, if you're a U.S. citizen, "Absolutely!" As a taxpayer, the Archives are yours to use in compliance with a few ground rules.

The NASA Web site at the link provides high-quality black & white photographs of aerodynamic tests of various early military aircraft and airfoils. See especially tests 1-113, which document tests between 1931 and 1939.

The home page of a virtual tour of the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force. Try the link for a unique trip through the Museum. Click the map for the "Early Years" to see some of the Army aircraft types that are represented n the Register. Not as good as being at the Museum in person, but tour will whet your appetite to go visit.

National Naval Aviation Museum. Located in Pensacola, FL, the NNAM is one of the largest aviation museums, exhibiting more than 150 restored aircraft. Among them is the Curtiss Hawk A-6969, which landed at Tucson and is recorded in the Register on February 20, 1928. Admission and guided tours are free.

The home page of The Ninety-Nines, the Web site of the international pilot organization for women. Forty-two female pilots visited the Davis-Monthan Airfield as pilot in command between 1929 and 1936. Fourteen of them were Charter Members of The Ninety-Nines. Nine of the aircraft they flew are still registered with the FAA today. The 99s site lists all the charter members, and exhibits biographies of some female Register pilots.

The OX5 Club. Membership is limited to those who, prior to December 31, 1940, have soloed or flown an OX5 powered aircraft, or have owned an OX5 powered aircraft, or have actively and directly participated in the design, construction, repair, maintenance or operation of OX5 powered aircraft. As of 2014 there are about 900 members. Obviously, the date specification self-limits the membership. So the new classification "Aviation Historian" was established, which requires new members simply to affirm they will work toward the perpetuation of the history of the OX5 aviation pioneers.

Specific set of SDAM images related to Ryan Aeronautical Company. The Museum describes the image set: "These rare images document the history of San Diego's Ryan Aeronautical. Highlights include the Spirit of St. Louis, Charles Lindbergh, the ST series of aircraft, PT series and Brougham series of aircraft, the Firebee and Fireball, among other subjects! These images were collected and organized by Ryan Historian William Wagner." 4,200 images; a useful browse.

Follow this link to the Virtual Aircraft Museum. Hundreds of aircraft, international coverage, some diagrammed in 3-view with specs. Historic as well as modern aircraft.

Not Aviation-Related: From The New York Times, an article entitled, "Piercing the Mystery of Potter’s Field." New York City has introduced a searchable database for the impoverished dead who have been buried on Hart Island. I haven't explored the database. I call it to your attention, since it represents another interesting database of people with a history.

This
page contains alphabetical listings of some of the hundreds of references I have
used as background to build Web pages for the people, airplanes, places
and events documented in the Davis-Monthan Airfield Register.
Use the links below to navigate this page.